Question

I am trying to create a database for an android app including, in part, non-English words which require underlines and accents for proper spelling. I set my encoding for this package to utf-8, which allowed the accented characters to store and display properly. However, I cannot seem to get a single character underlined. It displays an empty box for an unrecognized character.

An example of my database helper to create the sqlite is as follows:

cv.put(ENGLISH, "to be alive");
cv.put(NATIVE, "okch_á_a or okchaha");
cv.put(PART_OF_SPEECH, "verb");
cv.put(AUDIO, "alive");
cv.put(VIDEO, "none");
cv.put(IMAGE_DEFAULT, "none");
cv.put(IMAGE_OPTIONAL, "none");
cv.put(IMAGE_TO_USE, "none");
db.insert("words", ENGLISH, cv);

That
_ a _
is the best I can come up with so far, but the a should actually be an underlined character.

I tried html tags like u and /u:
<u>a</u>
since that works with string arrays, but it displays as:
<u>a</u>
(the html is never interpreted).

I tried using:
“\u0332”
as explained at http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/332/index.htm , but that, too, is never interpreted, so it displays as:
a\u0332

I also tried:
& # 818 ;
and:
& # x332 ;
in a similar manner, with similar lack of results.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can store your string in Html format and call .setText(Html.fromHtml(somestring)) from the textview were you want to display it.